Outdoors: Eastern Fishing and Outdoor Exposition on tap

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The next event on the 2008 outdoor show calendar is the Eastern Fishing and Outdoor Exposition which will be held at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., from Feb. 7-10.

The next event on the 2008 outdoor show calendar is the Eastern Fishing and Outdoor Exposition which will be held at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., from Feb. 7-10.

A person with a range of outdoor interests can see and handle the latest tackle and hunting equipment, stands and outdoor related “doo-dads” presented by the people who make them. There are vendor booths that sell lures, books, outdoor art and a host of other related products. It’s a place to purchase toys from many of the best tackle and gun shops in the region, then walk a few yards to book a fishing or hunting trip anywhere from Alaska to Africa to use them.

There are outfitters from all over the continent and world, including my good friend Dick Harlock, of Gogama Lodge, Ontario.

This year, Saturday is “Whitetail Super Day” with deer and other hunting related seminars continuing all day long. The Northeast Big Buck Club will be there to officially measure your potential trophy racks and new to this year, the regional organization is holding a “Trophy Buck Contest” to make bragging rights official. (Check out the details at www.sportshows.com, then click on contests.)

The point of this contest is to gain notoriety for some of the great deer that hunters shoot here in the Northeast. Many big racks have never been recognized in the “books” that are maintained by Pope & Young or Boone & Crockett, the two big-time trophy record-keepers in the world. Deer in the area tend to be heavier but not as large racked as those in P&Y and B&C records, so the standards are slightly lower for recognition.

For $20, which is not a measurement fee but one for membership into this organization, you can get your trophy of a lifetime scored and maybe entered into the books.

I will be doing two fishing seminars on Sunday. At 12:30 p.m., the topic will be the effects of weather on catching fish and at 3:30 p.m., the focus is on pike, muskies, walleyes and other emerging new fisheries in the Northeast.

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